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    USER MANUAL AXIS P1214 Network Camera[...]

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    About this document This manual is intended for administrators and users of the AXIS P1214 Network Camera, and is applicable to rmware 5.40 and later. It includes instructions for using and managing the product on your network. Previous experience of networking will be of use when using this product. Some knowledge of UNIX or Linux-based systems[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Table of Contents Hardware Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 LED Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Hardware Overview Hardware Overview 10 11 9 8 7 3 2 1 6 5 4 12 13 1 Power indicator LED 2 Status indicator LED 3 Network indicator LED 4 SD card slot (microSD card) 5 Camera connector 6 I/O terminal connector 7 Main unit 8 Network connector 9 Control button 10 Power connector 11 Mounting rail 12 Sensor unit 13 Mounting bra[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Hardware Overview NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE To prevent corruption of recordings, the SD card should be unmounted before removal. To unmount, go to Setup > System Options > Storage > SD Card and click Unmount . Control button - The control button is used for: • Resetting the product to factory default settings. See pa[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Hardware Overview 1. Cut the cable to the desired length. Measure from the sensor unit. 2. Strip the plastic outer coating from the end of the cable. 3. Peel back the shield. 4. Flatten the colored wires in the order described below. 1 Brown 2 White/brown 3 Not used 4 Not used 5 White/blue 6 Blue 5. Insert the wires all th[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Accessing the Product Accessing the Product To install the Axis product, refer to the Installation Guide supplied with the product. The product can be used with most operating systems and browsers. The recommended browsers are Internet Explorer with Windows, Safari with Macintosh and Firefox with other operating systems. S[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Accessing the Product Access from the Internet Once connected, the Axis product is accessible on your local network (LAN). To access the product from the Internet you must congure your network router to allow incoming data trafc to the product. To do this, enable the NAT-traversal feature, which will attempt to autom[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Accessing the Product Set Power Line Frequency Power line frequency is set the rst time the Axis product is accessed and can only be changed from Plain Cong (see page 40 ) or by resetting the product to factory default. Select the power line frequency (50 Hz or 60 Hz) used at the location of the Axis product. Selecti[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Accessing the Product 3. From the Trigger drop-down list, select Input Signal . 4. From the second drop-down list, select Manual Trigger . 5. Select the desired action and congure the other settings as required. For more information about action rules, see Events, on page 26 . To show the manual trigger buttons in the L[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Media Streams Media Streams The Axis product provides several video stream formats. Your requirements and the properties of your network will determine the type you use. The Live View page in the product provides access to H.264 and Motion JPEG video streams, and to the list of available stream proles. Other application[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Media Streams The AMC Control Panel can be used to congure various video settings. Please see the AXIS Media Control User’s Manual for more information. The AMC Control Panel is automatically installed on rst use, after which it can be congured. Open the AMC Control Panel from: • Windows Control Panel (from th[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Media Streams Note • <ip>= IP addess • The Axis product supports QuickTime 6.5.1 and later. • QuickTime adds latency to the video stream. • It may be possible to use other players to view the H.264 stream using the paths above, although Axis does not guarantee this. 13[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Setting Up the Product Setting Up the Product The Axis product can be congured by users with administrator or operator rights. To open the product’s Setup pages, click Setup in the top right-hand corner of the Live View page. • Administrators have unrestricted access to all settings. • Operators have access to all[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Video Video It is possible to congure the following video features in your Axis product: • Video stream. See page 15 . • Stream proles. See page 16 . • Camera settings. See page 17 . • Overlay image. See page 17 . • Privacy mask. See page 18 . Video Stream You can dene the following video stream settings[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Video Image The default image settings can be congured under Video> Video Stream . Select the Image tab. The following settings are available: • Resolution . Select the default resolution. • Compression . The compression level affects the image quality, bandwidth and le size of saved images; the lower the comp[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Video For quick setup, use one of the predened stream proles. Each predened prole has a descriptive name, indicating its purpose. If required, the predened stream proles can be modied and new customized stream proles can be created. To create a new prole or modify an existing prole, go to Setu[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Video An overlay text can display the current date and time, or a text string. When using a text string, modiers can be used to display information such as the current bit rate or the current frame rate. For information about available modiers, see File Naming & Date/Time Formats in the online help . To enable ov[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Video Important Adding many privacy masks may affect the product’s performance. 19[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Live View Cong Live View Cong You can customize the Live View page and alter it to suit your requirements. It is possible to dene the following features of the Live View page. • Stream Prole. See page 16 . • Default Viewer for Browser. See page 20 . • Viewer Settings. See page 21 . • Action Buttons. The[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Live View Cong Browser Viewer Description AMC Recommended viewer in Internet Explorer (H.264/Motion JPEG). QuickTime H.264. Java applet A slower imaging alternative to AMC (Motion JPEG). Requires one of the following installed on the client: • JVM (J2SE) 1.4.2 or higher. • JRE (J2SE) 5.0 or higher. Windows Internet [...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Live View Cong For more information about I/O ports, see I/O Ports, on page 38 . 22[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Detectors Detectors Camera Tampering Camera Tampering can generate an alarm whenever the camera is repositioned, or when the lens is covered, sprayed or severely defocused. To send an alarm, for example an email, an action rule must be set up. To congure tampering: 1. Go to Detectors > Camera Tampering . 2. Set the M[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Detectors Note Using the motion detection feature may decrease the product’s overall performance. Set Up Motion Detection Windows To set up a motion detection Include Window, follow these instructions: 1. Go to Detectors > Motion Detection . 2. Select the Congure Included Windows option and click New . Select the n[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Applications Applications Third party applications can be uploaded to and installed on the Axis product. Applications add functionality to the product, for example video analytics and intelligent video capabilities such as recognition, tracking, detection and counting. For information about available applications, download[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Events Events The Axis product can be congured to perform actions when different events occur, for example, start a recording when motion is detected. The set of conditions that denes how and when the action is triggered is called an Action Rule . Available Action Rule triggers and conditions include: • Application[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Events Setting Up an Action Rule An action rule denes the conditions that must be met for the product to perform an action, for example record video or send email notications. If multiple conditions are dened, all must be met to trigger the action. The following example describes how to set up an action rule to re[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Events Note A network share can also be used as a storage device for recorded video. Go to System Options > Storage to congure a network share before setting up a continuous recording or an action rule to record video. See Storage, on page 37 for more information about storage devices. To add a recipient: 1. Go to Ev[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Recordings Recordings The Axis product can be congured to record video continuously or according to an action rule: • To start a continuous recording, see page 29 . • To set up action rules, see page 27 . • To access recordings, see Recording List, on page 29 . • To congure camera controlled storage, see Stor[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera System Options System Options Security Users User access control is enabled by default and can be congured under System Options > Security > Users . An administrator can set up other users by giving them user names and passwords. It is also possible to allow anonymous viewer login, which means that anybody may acc[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera System Options IEEE 802.1X IEEE 802.1X is a standard for port-based Network Admission Control providing secure authentication of wired and wireless network devices. IEEE 802.1X is based on EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol). To access a network protected by IEEE 802.1X, devices must authenticate themselves. The authe[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera System Options If using a host name for the NTP server, a DNS server must be congured. See DNS Conguration, on page 34 . • Set manually allows you to manually set date and time. If using an NTP server, select your Time zone from the drop-down list. If required, check Automatically adjust for daylight saving time ch[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera System Options Linux/Unix syntax arp -s <IP address> <serial number> temp ping -l 408 <IP address> Linux/Unix example arp -s 192.168.0.125 00:40:8c:18:10:00 temp ping -l 408 192.168.0.125 Windows syntax (this may require that you run the command prompt as an administrator) arp -s <IP address> <se[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera System Options Advanced TCP/IP Settings DNS Conguration DNS (Domain Name Service) provides the translation of host names to IP addresses. The DNS settings are congured under System Options > Network > TCP/IP > Advanced . Select Obtain DNS server address via DHCP to use the DNS settings provided by the DHCP s[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera System Options NAT traversal (port mapping) for IPv4 A network router allows devices on a private network (LAN) to share a single connection to the Internet. This is done by forwarding network trafc from the private network to the “outside”, that is, the Internet. Security on the private network (LAN) is increased s[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera System Options QoS (Quality of Service) QoS (Quality of Service) guarantees a certain level of a specied resource to selected trafc on a network. A QoS-aware network prioritizes network trafc and provides a greater network reliability by controlling the amount of bandwidth an application may use. The QoS settings [...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera System Options RTP/H.264 The RTP port range and multicast settings are congured under System Options > Network > RTP . The RTP port range denes the range of ports from which the video ports are automatically selected. For multicast streams, only certain IP addresses and port numbers should be used. Select Alway[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera System Options Network Share Network share allows you to add network storage such as a NAS (Network Attached Storage) or any server that uses CIFS (Common Internet File System) and use them for storage of recordings. To add a network share: 1. Go to System Options > Storage . 2. Click Network Share . 3. Enter the IP add[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera System Options Click Default to reset all settings, including the IP address, to the factory default values. This button should be used with caution. The Axis product can also be reset to factory default using the control button, see Reset to Factory Default Settings, on page 40 . To identify the product or test the Status[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera System Options NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE Improper use may cause unexpected behavior and loss of contact with the Axis product. Axis strongly recommends that you do not use this function unless you understand the consequences. Axis Support does not provide assistance for problems with customized scripts. To open the Script Edito[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Troubleshooting Troubleshooting Checking the Firmware Firmware is software that determines the functionality of network devices. One of your rst actions when troubleshooting a problem should be to check the current rmware version. The latest version may contain a correction that xes your particular problem. The cu[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Troubleshooting arp -s <IP address> <serial number> temp ping -l 408 <IP address> In Windows , type the following from a command/DOS prompt (this may require that you run the command prompt as an administrator): arp -s <IP address> <serial number> ping -l 408 -t <IP address> 2. If the pr[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Troubleshooting The IP address has been changed by DHCP IP addresses obtained from a DHCP server are dynamic and may change. If the IP address has been changed, use AXIS IP Utility or AXIS Camera Management to located the product on the network. Identify the product using its model or serial number, or by the DNS name (if [...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Troubleshooting Lower frame rate than expected See Performance Considerations, on page 47 . Reduce the number of applications running on the client computer. Limit the number of simultaneous viewers. Check with the network administrator that there is enough bandwidth available. Check in the AMC Control Panel (H.264 tag) th[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Technical Specications Technical Specications Function/group Item Specications Model AXIS P1214 Image sensor Progressive scan RGB CMOS 1/4” Lens f=3.7 mm, F2.5, xed iris, xed focus Horizontal angle of view: 57° Vertical angle of view: 31° Diagonal angle of view: 68° Light sensitivity 1.2 lux – 10000 l[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Technical Specications Function/group Item Specications Application Programming Interface Open API for software integration, including VAPIX® and AXIS Camera Application Platform from Axis Communications; specications available at www.axis.com Includes the ONVIF specication available at www.onvif.org Support f[...]

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    AXIS P1214 Network Camera Technical Specications Function/group Item Specications Video management software (sold separately) AXIS Camera Station — Video management software for viewing and recording up to 50 cameras See www.axis.com/products/video/software/ for more software applications via partners Optional accessories AXIS T8412 Install[...]

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    User Manual Ver. M4.4 AXIS P1214 Network Camera Date: May 2013 © Axis Communications AB, 2012 - 2013 Part No. 51834[...]